Things to say,
readers to reach

Making the connection between my work and yours.

This is what it’s all about.

Contact

First person

Virginia Durksen [about me, business of one]

Visible Ink is an owner-operated company. I offer two workshop dates each month, which allows me time to prepare for and follow up on workshops. It also gives me time to write and edit for a few great clients. And to read. And travel. And generally enjoy life.

Over the years, I have also worked to help build a great community of editors. I am happy to promote the profession I serve. As an advocate for clear communication, I also provide media interviews and keynote speeches. Please contact me if you think if your writers and editors at work need a little visible ink.

Second person

You thought you were avoiding a career that requires writing. And yet here you are, writing proposals, reports, procedures and plans of all sorts. You are a writer at work.

Third person

Customers, citizens, decision makers [about all of us, including them]

Readers—the people we hope to inform and influence—are why we write. And they are why we all need to translate what we know [invisible ink] into clear, useful writing that helps readers see what we are trying to say.

That’s Visible Ink. Writing @ Work. Editing on Purpose.

Contact Virginia

Questions to ask, details to provide

Writing at Work and Editing on Purpose are two-day workshops for employees who drive and deliver your business—and for their managers.

This is training that reaches beyond grammar, past the rules you learned in junior high, and dives into the real world that you write in every day.

Let me know what you need to know. Or, let me know if you’re not sure what you need to know.